The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-08
Observers Observations.


Mr.. A. c. Webb is in a very critical condi-
ton.
Farmers are looking after their haying
help.
Our recent rains have done powerful
sight of good.
The boys are catching good many fish at
Three Mile Lake.
Delos Harrington is the happy owner of
very fine Young Wilkes colt.
The potato bug is not as numerous and
ravenous as he was last year.
Mr.. Cady Van Week has an aunt and uncle
| from Hastings, Nebraska, visiting him.
Hank McCabe is agent for John Galligan's
IS" spring road cart, which is a good one.
Glover hay will be cut in some places this
week, but the crop will not be as heavy as
| usual.
Meadows that were not fit for a goose pas
ture a week ago, will now yield good crop
of hay.
Wheat is worth eighty cents per bushe
here now-the best price for the last twelve
months.
John Burnett sports brand new buggy.
We think the old gentleman is getting little
proud in his declining years.
The other day, some unchristian thief stole
a coat from a scare-crow belonging to one of
our best farmers. Quite thief that.
Ed. George of Lawton, who has been draw.
ing pension of four dollars per month, got
it raised the other day to thirty dollars.
jim Tuxbury of Waverly, has sold his
farm and talks of moving into the city.
Come on Jim, we have lots of room for you.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Dewitt Ferguson of the Lyle
district. lost a little child about nine months
old last Friday night. 1t was buried on
Sunday.
Mrs. Patterson Minnch is the happy
mother of a new girl baby, and Pat is as well
as could be expected. Mrs. Pat was formerly
Miss Libbie Hinckley.
couple of old jocks got together in town
the other day to trade plugs, and the trade
was broken off on account of one asking the
other six shillings to boot.
Bill Thayer was over in Buckville last week
and let big job of grading on one of the
principal streets of that city TO Col. Jack
Huntington, the lowest bidder.
Uncle Sam is trying to take Lewis
Schweider's pension away from him, claim
ing that he incurred his disabilities prior to
his army service, but Sammy can hardly do
it.
They got up little surprise party one day
last week and played it off on Mrs. Sam Orr
in honor of her 35th birthday. She received
number of nice presents and all had good
time.
Thornless and Gene Smith, half brothers
to Jim Lane, each won $3.50 race last week;
the former at Hartford Conn, and the latter
at Elgin, Ills. Both were raised in this
county.
Corporal Geo. Dixon, who went from here
TO Kalamazoo, is now running harness shop
on his own hook at the farmers sheds. The
corporal tells US that he has lots of work and
is saving money.
Mrs. Geo. King, who went to Rome, n. "
to be treated for a cancer, at an expense OF
nearly 5000, says she got very little relief
there, but that she has been completely cured
by DR.. Briggs of Schoolcraft.
A short time since, George Pepper bought
deacon skin for a dollar and did his own
SHINING Gen. Granger gave him twenty
!, cents for the hide and George has gone out
of the hide and leather business.
Will Lewey, who talked of coming here
from Kalamazoo to train horses on our track
if the sheds were fixed mp, is now training
on the Kalamazoo track. He has fine lot
of horses and Jim Lane is among them.
Waverly has a very ingenious chap, who
will make mark as an inventor one of these
days, that will astonish the world. His --latest
is the producing and growing of patent
: wart on any part of the human body, which
! is done by vaccination from full grown
} wart, cultivated for the purpose. He grows
r these warts mostly on the back of the necl
and they are used for collar buttons. III
, claims that his system will result in saving
! of S3,000000 annually for the American
. people, as when once grown they are never
4 lost, always in the right place aud will las
J almost any young man of temperate habits
hundred years. Scarcely young man il
, Waverly can be found without patent war
f collar button, which they treasure very high
ly. The inventor thinks the day is not IA
distant when all first class families will adop
r them and that the world will then look upol
him md call him mod